SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. will target young Cricket Clicks subscribers with urban-themed content from BlingTones, the operator announced Tuesday.Cricket users can access ringtones and images from Lil' Jon and other noted hip-hop stars with the BREW-based application. The portfolio of content is developed...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless subscribers can buy a ringtone version of a single by country star Gretchen Wilson before the tune makes its radio debut, the carrier said Friday.Cingular released a wireless version of "All Jacked Up," the title track of Wilson's album that will be...
DENVER-Brickhouse Mobile will team with Falcon Studios to develop and distribute gay adult content, the companies announced yesterday.Falcon, which has made gay adult films for more than 30 years, will create clips from its film portfolio for wireless users; the studio's stars will provide...
RICHMOND, Va.-Mobile Streams announced it has partnered with Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. to provide mobile content, including ringtones and backgrounds, to Dobson Cellular's 1.5 million subscribers in 65 rural and suburban markets.In addition to supplying ringtones and backgrounds, Mobile Stream will make its consumer...
NEW YORK-BlingTones, a wireless record label, announced its BarrioMobile brand designed to serve the urban Latin community.BarrioMobile will provide exclusive ringtones in popular Latin genres including reggaeton and hip-hop Latino. The company will sign artists and producers to create exclusive, original 30-second songs and...
NEW YORK-Wireless and broadband Internet will account for a large portion of total spending growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to PricewaterhouseCooper's "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009" report. Total revenues from new spending streams such as wireless will increase from...
SAN FRANCISCO-The Liberty Alliance standard group said it plans to develop specifications that would withhold users' phone numbers from wireless content providers. The group said its new interface specifications would protect mobile-phone users' privacy. "This business represents a large source of income for mobile...
Faced with increasingly crowded shelf space on carrier decks, content providers are gaining traction by marketing directly to U.S. consumers with Web-based storefronts of their own. And carriers are slowly warming to the idea. Off-portal marketing of ringtones, wallpapers and other "personalization" content has...
My niece was caught in a rainstorm last week while at an out-of-town cheerleading camp. The torrential rain soaked her to the skin and drowned the wireless handset in her pocket. After the rain stopped, the phone would not work. My brother loaned her...
NEW YORK-Wireless and broadband Internet will account for a large portion of total spending growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to PricewaterhouseCooper's "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009" report.Total revenues from new spending streams such as wireless will increase from $11.4...
SAN DIEGO-Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc., which is set to launch a youth-oriented service using Verizon Wireless' CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network later this year, selected M7 Networks to create and manage its Games Connect game community using M7's Application Community Platform. Amp'd...
SAN DIEGO-Macromedia will distribute Flash-based applications for BREW-enabled wireless handsets under an agreement announced Friday at Qualcomm's 2005 BREW Conference. The San Francisco-based developer said it has signed on as an Elite member of the BREW Alliance Program and will offer applications for the...
ATLANTA and NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless has added Gwen Stefani to its portfolio, offering several new ringtones including a 30-second master tone from the singer's hit "Hollaback Girl." The carrier will offer two ringtone versions of the hit single as well as clips from two...
Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc., which is set to launch a youth-oriented service using Verizon Wireless' CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network later this year, selected M7 Networks to create and manage its Games Connect game community using M7's Application Community Platform. Amp'd said...
SEATTLE-Multimedia messaging service activity continued to grow at an impressive clip in April, with nearly 8 percent of U.S. wireless users sending photos from their handsets to another phone or e-mail address, according to mobile usage measurement firm M:Metrics.The latest figures from the company's...
BOSTON-Mobile marketing company m-Qube said it has teamed with Nestle Nesquick for an integrated mobile promotion to attract teen-agers and young adults.The promotion includes an instant-win game that allows customers to text in a game code printed on Nesquick packages to see if they...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-FunMail launched its new VizTones multimedia ringtone technology, which incorporates wallpapers, animations and ringtones into a rich media ringtone.Customers can purchase bundled image and ringtone content as part of the offering. In addition, some handsets are able to display Animated VizTones in the...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Internet-based digital radio network Mercora said it is bringing its user-contributed streaming audio service to Windows Mobile-based handhelds. The company launched IM Radio Mobile v1.0, featuring more than 20,000 commercial-free radio channels, near-CD quality sound and instant messaging and chat capabilities. The...
Nokia's N90, part of the company's new N-series of multimedia devices, includes a 2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and VHS-resolution video capture. It should be available during the second quarter.Nokia's W-CDMA N91 music phone features a 4-gigabyte hard disk, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It...
Cassandra and Curtis Brown have set their sights on perhaps the most niche of all mobile markets: fans of "holy hip-hop." The Pittsburgh-area couple recently partnered with mobile music provider Xingtone to offer 10 Christian-themed urban ringtones from tunes with names like "Christ Soljahz,"...
BEIJING-China Mobile's 220 million subscribers will be able to access content from MTV networks under an agreement announced Thursday.Beginning May 1, subscribers of China's largest wireless carrier can download music and news video clips as well as ringtones and ring-back tones. Terms of the...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-MediaBay Inc. and DotPhoto Inc. announced an agreement that calls for the companies to offer MediaBay's classic radio show library through DotPhoto's Ringtalker ringtone service. MediaBay's library includes more than 50,000 hours of classic radio programs, including Abbott & Costello, The Jack...
ESPOO, Finland-Yahoo! will provide Internet-based services and content to Series 60 devices from Nokia Corp., the companies announced Tuesday. Yahoo! will have a link to its mobile Web site installed on Nokia devices.The portal will provide e-mail, mobile search services and entertainment content including...
WARREN, N.J.-Virgin Mobile USA customers will get exclusive access to ringtones from Grammy-winning artist Faith Evans' album "The First Lady" as part of its First Dibs program.The offer is part of a new mobile content agreement between Virgin and EMI Music. The ringtone for...
